Tae Yun Kim
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| Born | South Korea |
| Nationality | Korean-born U.S. Citizen |
| Other names | Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim |
| Occupation | Author, Chairman & CEO, Motivational Speaker, Life Coach, Teacher, Martial Artist |
| Known for | Publications, martial arts, business |
| Notable work | Seven Steps to Inner Power, The Silent Master |
| Website | taeyunkim.com |
Tae Yun Kim is a lecturer, author, and martial arts teacher.
Tae Yun Kim was born in South Korea on February 2, 1946, and came from the humblest of circumstances. She was not born in a hospital, but a shack. Tae Yun Kim was born into a family and culture where she had to endure both physical and mental abuse. She was cast away and was often left to starve, simply because she was a girl in the male-dominated society in South Korea. During the Korean War, she was abandoned at the young age of 5.
She began practicing TaeKwonDo at age 7, later becoming the first female ever to reach the level of Grandmaster in TaeKwonDo. Kim came to America when she was in her early 20s and started the Jung SuWon discipline of martial arts and founded the Jung SuWon Martial Art Academy.
Kim has authored self-help and self-improvement books which are published in over 15 languages. She is also the CEO and Chairman of Lighthouse Worldwide Solutions, a manufacturer of particle measurement instruments and real-time contamination monitoring systems. She started the computer company after the saw an IBM commercial with Charlie Chaplin and a red rose.
She titles herself as Dr. Tae Yun Kim as she received an honorary doctorate from a university in South Korea in 2003.
Kim has been practicing different forms of martial arts for over 60 years. Kim's martial arts lifestyle may have started from TaeKwonDo, but she has since founded a new discipline called Jung SuWon.
Kim first fell in love with TaeKwonDo when she caught sight of her uncles training in the martial art of Taekwondo. She was fascinated and knew that this is what she wanted to do. She begged her uncles to teach her but they laughed at her. Finally, one uncle agreed thinking that she wouldn't be able to keep up with the hard training and all the bruises that were a natural part of the martial arts. To his surprise, she continued and excelled.
Though her parents increased their physical abuse in the effort of stopping her, Tae Yun Kim persisted in her martial art training and became the first Korean female to earn a black belt and Master rank and became the first female Grandmaster in the martial arts in over 5,000 years. Kim was inducted into the Taekwondo Hall of Fame in 2009 and received a Lifetime Achievement Award,.
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